#38376 apt: apt-get remove doesn't mention Recommends to package

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Roland Rosenfeld
Date:
2015-08-17 11:48:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#38376#5
Date:
1999-05-26 16:18:40 UTC
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To:
The transfig package "Recommends: netpbm". Now I tried what happens,
when I remove the netpbm package using "apt-get remove netpbm". I
expected that the program would tell me that transfig still recommends
this package, but apt-get simply tries to remove the package without
any comment:

# apt-get remove netpbm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  netpbm
The following held packages will be changed:
  netpbm
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 270 not upgraded.
Need to get 0b of archives. After unpacking 1338kb will be freed.

I think, that apt-get should tell the user that there is a
recommendation like dselect does (dselect suggests removing all
packages recommending the package selected for removal and it informs
me about packages suggesting the package, but doesn't suggest removal).